Corn-shock-compressing device



(No Model.)

M. T. MAHIN.

001m SHOCK GOMPRESSING DEVICE.

Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MATHEW T. MAHIN, OF GRENOLA, KANSAS.

CORN-SHOCK-COMPRESSING DEViCE.

SPECIEICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,092, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed August 10, 1855.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATHEW T. MAHIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Grenola, in the county of Elk and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Shock-Oompressing Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved corn-shock-compressing device applied. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the device. Fig. 3 is a front View of the same, and Fig. 4 is a top view.

- Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to devices for compressing shocks of corn or grain; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, ashereinaftermore fully described and claimed.

1n the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a bar or framepiece, which has a bearing in its middle, in which bearing the shaft 0 is journaled, which shaft is tapering, forming a pointed or spit shaped portion, while its outer end is provided with a drum, E, having a ratchet-wheel, F, at its inner end and a crank, G, at its outer end. A springpawl, H, consisting of a fiat spring secured at one end upon the upper edge of the frame piece,engages the ratchet-wheel with the other end, and a lever, I, pivoted at its middle upon the front side of the frame-piece, has an outwardly-bent handle, J, at one end, while its other end may bear against the under side of the spring-pawl and raise the same out of en gagement with the ratchet-wheel when the handie is depressed. A pulley, K, is journaled in one end of the frame-piece, and a pulley, L, is j ournaled in the end of a forwardly-projecting bracket, M, which is secured upon the front side of the framepiece, and both pulleys are journaled within recesses or slots N and O in the end of the frame-piece and of the bracket, and protected from the outer ends of the recesses or slots by means of guard-strips Pand Serial No. 173,999. (No model.)

Q, secured over the open ends of the' slots. A cord or chain, R, is secured at one end to the drum, and passes over the pulley at the cut of the bracket and over the pulley at the end of the frame-piece, and its other end has at eye, S, which is attached to a hook, T, pro jecting from the rear side of the opposite cm of the framc-piece.

When the device is to be used, the pointed end of the shaft is inserted into the shock to be tied, whereupon the cord is passed around the shock and secured with its eye to the hook, when the shock may be drawn tightly together by winding the cord upon the drum.

The cord may beheld drawn by means 0: the spring-pawl engaging the ratchet-wheel, and the shock may be bound with a wire, cord, or rope made of straw or cornstalks, whereupon the handle end of the pawl-operating lever may be depressed and the pawl disengaged from the ratchet-wheel, allowing the cord to be loosened and unhooked from the hook, whereupon the device may be removed from the finished shock and be applied to an other shock, where the operation may be re peated.

By the use of this device shocks of corn 0] grain, as well as bundles ofstraw, hay, or other similar material, may easily be compressed, the cord and drum tightening the shock 01 bundle so that it is not necessary to exert any great strain upon the wire, cord, or rope witt which the said shock or bundle is tied.

Having thus described my inventioml claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States-- In a compressing device for corn-shocks ant similar bundles, the combination of a frame piece having a hearing at its middle, and hav ing a pulley journaled in a slot at one end an guarded by a guard-strip across the end of the slot, and having a hook at the rear side of the other end of the frame-piece, a bracket pro jecting from the front side of the frame-piece and having a pulley journaled in a slot in-the end of the same, and having a guard-stri across the end of the slot, a shaft journaled iI the bearing in the frame, and having one cut formed into a projecting prong, and havingit: other end provided with a drum having 2 ratchet-wheel at its inner end and a crank a ts outer end, a flat spring-pawl secured at one In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my 2nd to the upper side of the frame and engagown I have hereunto aflixed my signature in ng the ratchetwheel with its other end, a lepresence of two Witnesses.

zer pivoted upon the front side of the frame, and having its outer end formed with a han- He, and a cord passing over the pulleys and MATHEW T. MAHIN.

secured at one end to the drum, and having an Vitnesses: eye at its other end adapted to engage the J. REID, 100k upon the end of the frame-piece, as and T. M. FUNK,

'or the purpose shown and set forth. 

